Lincoln Steffens

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Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.

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instanceOf author
journalist
muckraker
person
political reformer
awardReceived Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and Award
surface form: Pulitzer Prize special citation (posthumous influence; associated with muckraking era)
birthDate 1866-04-06
birthPlace San Francisco, California, United States of America
surface form: San Francisco, California, United States
citizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
deathDate 1936-08-09
deathPlace Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
surface form: Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States
educatedAt University of California, Berkeley
Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
surface form: University of Heidelberg

University of Leipzig
La Sorbonne
surface form: University of Paris
employer Everybody's Magazine
McClure's Magazine
familyName Steffens
fullName Joseph Lincoln Steffens
genre investigative journalism
political journalism
givenName Joseph
influenced American investigative journalism
later political reformers
influencedBy Progressive Era
surface form: Progressive reform movement
knownFor being a leading muckraker of the Progressive Era
early sympathetic reporting on the Russian Revolution
exposing political corruption in American city governments
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Progressive Era
muckraking journalism
nationality American
notableWork Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities
The Struggle for Self-Government
Upbuilders
occupation author
journalist
magazine editor
placeOfBurial Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
surface form: Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States
politicalAlignment progressive
positionHeld managing editor of McClure's Magazine
spouse Ella Winter
visited Soviet Union
surface form: Soviet Russia
wroteAbout municipal corruption in Chicago
municipal corruption in Minneapolis
municipal corruption in New York City
municipal corruption in Philadelphia
municipal corruption in Pittsburgh
municipal corruption in St. Louis

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